Sigmund Freud’s Jokes part A. I. b. – Introduction
This is the second of several installments on Sigmund Freud’s Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious (1905; free eBook) – and the reactions to ...
Month: July 2017
Sigmund Freud’s Jokes part A. I. a. – Introduction
This is the first of several installments on Sigmund Freud’s Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious (1905; free eBook) – and the reactions to i...
Rosie O’Donnell: There’s No There, There
Rosie O’Donnell’s in the news for a Tweet in which she promotes an online game, “Push Trump Off A Cliff Again.” At first glance, it see...
Mike Birbiglia on Getting Personal
Mike Birbiglia spoke to Bill Brownstein of the Montreal Gazette (7/14/2017) about getting personal. Getting personal is crucial in comedy. I feel that we’re liv...
Parodic Satire
I need to continue with Lewis Black’s 2006 Grammy nominated HBO special, Red, White and Screwed. Black meanders through several topical and social bits, e...
Parody
Two voices Parody is another form of humor that is frequently conflated with verbal irony. In Gary Saul Morson’s read of Mikhail Bakhtin, parody is distinguishe...
Ron White on Entertaining
Just a quick one, so I’ll pair it with another “theory-theory” piece. In an interview with Robert DiGiacomo of Atlanticcityweekly.com (7/18/20...
Lynne Parker and Comic Frames
In an interview with Hannah Williams of Backstage.com (7/13/2017), producer Lynne Parker says a few interesting things about stand-up and humor more generally. ...
Elahe Izadi on the Benefits and Evils of Technology
When I teach courses on media theory, I like to point out that whenever a new technology appears, there are some that hail it as the thing that will finally spa...
Elahe Izadi on the Current Stand-Up Comedy Boom
Elahe Izadi, in an article for the Washington Post (7/13/2017), talks about the current “stand-up comedy boom.” Never before has so much original ma...